New York: Twitter has applied for trademark for the word “subtweet”, which refers to a tweet directed at another person without mentioning their Twitter name, Digital Trends reported. If Twitter succeeds in its bid, the word “subtweet” would belong to the company to use in a commercial context. The trademarkRead More

Toronto: Are you a Deepak Chopra fan and love to bombard your friends` Facebook wall with inspirational quotes? This may sweep the floor off your feet but according to interesting research, people who post motivational quotes on Facebook and Twitter are actually dumb and “have lower levels of intelligence”. InRead More

San Francisco: Yahoo launched a next-generation messaging platform Thursday in an ambitious bid to steal a march on a crowded field, as rumors swirled that the Internet pioneer is considering selling its core business. New Yahoo Messenger apps were released in English for smartphones or tablets powered by Apple orRead More

Hyderabad: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will visit T-Hub, billed as India`s largest technology incubator, during his visit to Hyderabad later this month. Jayesh Ranjan, secretary for information technology in the Telangana government, told IANS on Wednesday that Nadella will be taken around the facility located at the International Institute ofRead More

San Francisco: Less than a week after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he would take two months of paternity leave, the social media company announced it is extending its parental leave policy to full-time employees outside the United States. The policy, which provides four months of paid time off,Read More

Washington: As smartphone screen sizes are becoming bigger and bigger, larger screens are not only enhancing users’ experience but can also change customers’ buying intentions, an Indian-origin researcher has found. Participants in the study who viewed video ads on larger smartphone screens were more likely to want to purchase aRead More

Burberry has teamed up with Google to allow customers to star in their very own version of its festive campaign. “The Burberry Booth,” which is powered by the tech giant, uses real-time video stitching technology to let clients appear alongside some of the Festive Film’s cast members in a 15-secondRead More

Washington: Google has developed a prototype wearable device based on the communicator in Star Trek which uses a microphone to listen to a user’s voice and can use Bluetooth to send those commands to another device. In science fiction, Captain Picard and his crew used their lapel pins to talkRead More

Emojis continue their ascent. These icons illustrating emotions have become part of texting, email and instant messaging worlds, and will soon be integrated into Facebook and Twitter so that users can react to a status, photo or video in the simplest way possible. Twitter is playing on the emotions ofRead More

New York: Researchers including one of Indian-origin have developed a new app that allows older people residing in independent living communities play various brain games and also helps them connect with health care providers for better living. It helps the elderly connect with care providers by sending concerns and questionsRead More